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prevented from laying up means wherewith to buy land for himself.

With such a system, supported by education, precedent, profit, and every selfish principle in human nature, it is not to be expected, that any liberality will be practised towards Freedmen.  The whites carry out, so far as they dare, their old ideas of rental, and the result is apparent.  This state of things exists, in a measure, throughout my Sub District. It is, however, modified in some counties, where the operation of the war has brought  all to one level of restitution, or where the administration of Bureau affairs has instituted a quicker rate of wages.  
     
Professor Whipple, Secretary of the American Missionary Association of New York, has undertaken to establish a system of schools on the Eastern Shore; and provided the Bureau shall

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